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WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
standardise privacy policy across all public facing Foundation web
sites; and
WHEREAS the Board of Directors has previously delegated responsibility
for establishing privacy policy to VP, Privacy;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Software Foundation
Privacy Policy is the new standard for all websites hosted by the
Foundation."
The full text of the public facing foundation websites can be found
here: https://privacy.apache.org/policies/privacy-policy-public.html
The full text of the policy:
This Privacy Policy clarifies the nature, scope and purpose of the
processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as “Data”) within
our online offering and the related websites, features and content, as
well as external online presence, e.g. our social media profiles on
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and similar sites (collectively referred to
as “online presence”). With regard to the terminology we use, e.g.
“Processing” or “Responsible”, we refer to the definitions in Article
4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Name and contact details of the controller and the company data
protection officer This privacy policy applies to data processing
by:
Responsible:
The Apache Software Foundation V. P. Data Privacy 1000 N West Street,
Suite 1200 Wilmington, DE 19801 U.S.A.
E-Mail: vp-privacy@apache.org
2. Collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose
of their use a) When visiting the website Log files When you visit
our websites (full list of domains) or one of our subdomains, the
browser on your device automatically sends information to the
server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a
log file. The following information is being collected without your
intervention and stored until automated deletion:
The IP address of the requesting computer The date and time of access
The name and URL of the retrieved file The website from which access
is made (referrer URL) Geo information of the location from which
access is made The browser used and, if applicable, the operating
system of your computer and the name of your access provider The data
mentioned are processed by us for the following purposes:
Ensuring connectivity of our website Ensuring a use of our website, of
which we think is comfortable for you Evaluation of system security
and stability Other administrative purposes The retention time for
this data is 90 days.
The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f
GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection
purposes listed above. In no case do we use the collected data for the
purpose of drawing conclusions about you. In addition, we use cookies
and analysis services when you visit our website. Further details can
be found under no. 4 and 5 of this privacy policy.
Matomo In addition to log files, some of our websites use Matomo to
understand what parts of the website are important to our users, what
features are most frequently accessed, where users get lost in the
documentation, etc. This data allows us to better understand how users
use the system, the website, and the docs and where to focus
improvements next.
The collected information consists of the following:
The IP address from which you access the website The type of browser
and operating system you use to access our site The date and time you
access our site The pages you visit If you click on any of the file
download links on our website The addresses of pages from where you
followed a link to our site The addresses of pages you go to from our
site The search terms you use on the website This information is
gathered and stored using the open source software Matomo. We don’t
use any cookies to collect this information. An IP address is
anonymized by removing the last two octets from the IP address. That
means that if your IP is 192.168.100.50, we store it as 192.168.0.0.
Matomo is self-hosted on a virtual machine provided by the Apache
Software Foundation. It can only be accessed by members of the Apache
Privacy committee. The data can be viewed by anyone by visiting
https://analytics.apache.org/.
Matomo respects any Do Not Track setting in your browser. You can also
opt-out from all Matomo tracking below.
b) When registering for our newsletter and mailing lists If, pursuant
to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, you have expressly
consented, we use your e-mail address to periodically send you our
newsletter. For the receipt of the newsletter the indication of an
e-mail address is sufficient.
We inform our visitors at regular intervals through newsletters about
news and offers from The Apache Software Foundation.
The newsletter of our Foundation can only be received if (1) the data
subject has a valid e-mail address and (2) the person concerned
registers for the newsletter. For legal reasons, a confirmation e-mail
will be sent to the e-mail address entered by an affected person
before the first time of sending the newsletter, using the
double-opt-in procedure. This confirmation email is used to check
whether the owner of the e-mail address is the person who authorized
the receipt of the newsletter.
When you subscribe to the newsletter, we store the date and time of
registration and the email address. The collection of this data is
necessary for us to understand the (possible) misuse of an affected
person’s e-mail address at a later date and therefore serves as legal
safeguards for the controller.
The personal data collected in the context of registering for the
newsletter is used exclusively to send our newsletter.
Subscribers may also be notified by e-mail if this is necessary for
the operation of the newsletter service or registration, as might be
the case in the event of changes to the newsletter/mailing list or
technical changes.
There will be no transfer to third parties of the personal data
collected as part of the newsletter service.
Subscription to our newsletter may be terminated by the person
concerned at any time. Consent to the storage of personal data that
the person has given us for the newsletter dispatch can be revoked at
any time. For the purpose of revoking the consent, instructions are
given by the end of each newsletter email.
c) When registering for our mailing lists If, pursuant to Art. 6 para.
1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR, you have expressly consented, we use your
e-mail address to send you messages arriving at our mailing lists. For
the receipt of the mailing list message the indication of an e-mail
address is sufficient.
Visitors may communicate with us through our mailing lists.
The mailing list messages of our organisation can only be received if
(1) the person concerned has a valid e-mail address and (2) the person
concerned registers for the mailing list. For legal reasons, a
confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address entered by an
affected person for the first time using the double-opt-in procedure.
This confirmation email is used to check whether the owner of the
e-mail address authorized the receipt of the mailing list messages.
When you subscribe to a mailing list, we store the date and time of
registration and the email address. The collection of this data is
necessary for us to understand the (possible) misuse of an affected
person’s e-mail address at a later date and therefore serves as legal
safeguards for the controller. When a mailing list is archived, the
log file will be deleted.
The personal data collected in the context of registering for a
mailing list will be used exclusively to send messages arriving at
that mailing list.
Subscribers may also be notified by e-mail if this is necessary for
the operation of the mailing list service or registration, as might be
the case in the event of changes to the mailing list or other
technical changes.
We will not actively transfer to third parties any personal data as
part of the mailing list service. However, almost all of our mailing
lists are of a public nature.
This means, your name and email may be exposed to the public. Also,
all information you send to a mailing list will be exposed to the
public. Third parties may collect this information and process it
separately. The sender of messages is responsible if they expose their
personal data to the public.
All content sent to mailing lists is archived indefinitely. By using
our mailing list service, you agree that any content is archived in
that way.
Subscription to our mailing lists may be terminated by the person
concerned at any time. The consent to the storage of personal data
that a person has given us for the mailing list dispatch can be
revoked at any time. For the purpose of revoking the consent,
instructions are given by the end of every email.
3. Disclosure of data Transfer of your personal data to third parties
for purposes other than those listed below does not take place. We
only share your personal information with third parties if:
You, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR, have given
express consent to this. Disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1
sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is required to assert, exercise or defend legal
claims and there is no reason to assume that you have a predominantly
legitimate interest in not disclosing your data. Disclosure pursuant
to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR is a legal obligation. As
permitted by law and according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b
GDPR, disclosure is required for the settlement of contractual
relationships with you.
4. External service providers The Apache Software Foundation uses the
following external service providers who help to optimize its
services. Insofar as these service providers process data on behalf
of The Apache Software Foundation, agreements have been concluded
with them which set the European data protection standards as
binding and, in particular, prohibit the use of the data for other
purposes. If we commission third parties to process data on the
basis of a so-called “contract processing contract”, this is done
on the basis of Art. 28 GDPR.
The full list of providers is located in the full privacy policy page
at https://privacy.apache.org/policies/privacy-policy-public.html
5. Social Media Plug-ins We rely on our website on the basis of Art. 6
para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR social plug-ins from the social
networks Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to make our company better
known. The underlying commercial purpose is to be regarded as a
legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR. Responsibility
for operation compliant with data protection is to be guaranteed by
the respective providers. The integration of these plug-ins by us
is done by means of the so-called two-click method to protect
visitors to our website in the best possible way.
a) YouTube On our website we have integrated components from YouTube.
YouTube is an internet video portal that allows video publishers to
freely watch video clips provided by other users for free viewing,
rating and commenting. YouTube allows the publication of all types of
videos, so that both complete film and television broadcasts, music
videos, trailers and user-made videos uploaded via the YouTube
internet portal are available.
YouTube’s operating company is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San
Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc.,
1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
Each visit to one of the pages of this site operated by the controller
and incorporating a YouTube component (YouTube video) will
automatically cause the Internet browser on the subject’s information
technology system to download an illustration of the corresponding
YouTube component from YouTube. More information about YouTube can be
found at https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. As part of this
technical process, YouTube and Google are aware of the specific
location of our site visited by the person concerned. If the person
visiting our site is logged in to YouTube at the same time, YouTube
calls a sub-page containing a YouTube video for the person visiting
our site. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and
associated with the individual YouTube account.
YouTube and Google will always receive information through the YouTube
component that a person has visited our website if the person is
logged into YouTube at the time of access to our website; this happens
regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If
such transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not
wanted by the person visiting our site, they can prevent the
transmission by logging out of their YouTube account before visiting
our website.
YouTube’s privacy policy, available at
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, identifies the
collection, processing, and use of personally identifiable information
by YouTube and Google.
7. Affected rights You have the right:
in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your
personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request
information on the processing purposes, the category of personal data,
the categories of recipients to whom your data has been disclosed, the
planned retention period, the right to rectification, deletion,
limitation of processing or opposition, the existence of a right to
complain, the source of your data, if not collected from us, and the
existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, where
appropriate, meaningful information about your data. in accordance
with Art. 16 GDPR, to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or
complete personal data stored with us. in accordance with Art. 17
GDPR, to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us,
unless the processing is required for the exercise of the right to
freedom of expression and information, for the fulfillment of a legal
obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion,
exercise or defense of Legal claims. to demand the restriction of the
processing of your personal data according to Art. 18 GDPR, as far as
the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is
unlawful, but you reject its deletion and we no longer need the data,
but you assert this, in the exercise or defense of legal claims or you
have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR. in
accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data provided
to us in a structured, standard and machine-readable format or to
request transmission to another person. according to Art. 7 para. 3
GDPR, to revoke your once-given consent to us at any time. As a
result, we are not allowed to continue processing of data based on
this consent for the future. to complain to a supervisory authority
pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory
authority of your usual place of residence or work or our office.
8. Right to object If our retention of your personal data is based on
legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1
lit. f GDPR, you have the right to file an objection against the
processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR,
provided that there are reasons for this arising from your
particular situation or the objection is directed against direct
mail. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection,
which is implemented by us without specifying any particular
situation. If you would like to exercise your right of revocation
or objection, please send an e-mail to vp-privacy@apache.org.
9. Data security We use the popular SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method
during your site visit, in conjunction with the highest level of
encryption supported by your browser. In general, this is a 256-bit
encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we
use 128-bit v3 technology instead. Whether a single page of our
website is encrypted is shown by the closed representation of the
key or lock icon in the lower status bar of your browser.
We also take appropriate technical and organizational security
measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional
manipulation, partial or total loss, destruction or unauthorized
access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously
improved in line with technological developments.
10. Updating and changing this privacy policy This privacy policy is
currently valid and is valid as of 2022-04-21.
As a result of the further development of our website and offers
thereof, or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may be
necessary to change this privacy policy. The current privacy policy
can be viewed and printed by you at any time on the website at
https://privacy.apache.org/policies/privacy-policy-public.html. Some
impacts of it can be found here:
https://privacy.apache.org/faq/committers.html
Special Order 7B, Standardise privacy policy for foundation
websites, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to standardise privacy policy across all public facing Foundation web sites; and WHEREAS the Board of Directors has previously delegated responsibility for establishing privacy policy to VP, Privacy; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Software Foundation Privacy Policy is the new standard for all websites hosted by the Foundation. Special Order 7A, Standardise the privacy policy for Foundation web sites, was tabled.